Anvilicious: Everybody knows that friendship is very important, but in a few occasions it gets quite exaggerated.

Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "Honor Thy Father" a Very Special Episode of the second season, Latka tangles in two occasions with a Puerto Rican man (who wasn't mentioned afterwards) who spends the rest of his screentime singing "El Jibarito". It's hard to know if he was intended to be an interim between John Burns and Jim Ignatowski note Iggy didn't become a regular until "Alex's Romance", or he was just thrown in as either a comic relief or just to make time.

Critical Dissonance: Taxi was known for having a comic style which was a far cry from Fanservice-driven shows like Three's Company or cynical, socially-relevant fare as Good Times, which was emphasized from the second season which caused ratings to drop quickly from the top 10 in 1978-79 to the bottom 10 in 1981-82 and 1982-83. However, critics certainly did not overlook the quality of the show, which earned 18 Emmy Awards (out of 31 nominations), 4 Golden Globes (out of 25 nominations) and an Humanitas Prize (the TV equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)

Interestingly, Latka was intentionally conceived as such, while Jim originated as a one-shot character in the season 1 episode "Paper Marriage" and was reintroduced as a regular in season 2.

"Funny Aneurysm" Moment: When Latka was convincing his mother he would be better off in America, he showed her a People magazine and explained "In America, a man can become another O.J. Simpson!"

In an earlier episode, Latka's goes to fight a revolution in his homeland. Taking that his fictional country is much a spoof of Eastern European countries, it lost much of its' hilarity some twelve years later when these countries faced general unrest.

Growing the Beard: When John Burns left after the first season and Reverend Jim joined in the second.

Once, Alex told Jim that he didn't see ET The Extraterrestrial because he didn't like sci-fi. Years later, Judd Hirsch was in Independence Day, one of the most successful science fiction flicks of all time.

In another episode, Louie is watching TV, and the program is playing a public-domain song called Temptation Sensation, which is better known these days as the theme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which of course also stars Danny DeVito. Amusingly, both shows also have an intro sequence that consists of footage filmed from a car while a cast member drove.

Ted Danson, later of Cheers fame, guesting as a snooty hairdresser, and in another episode, George Wendt, aka Norm Peterson, making a cameo as an exterminator.

The Scrappy: Some of the writers apparently felt that Simka was this when she became a semi-regular in the final season (with a more abrasive personality than she had in her guest appearances). According to an interview with writer-producers Glen and Les Charles, some writers simply refused to write for Simka.

"Seinfeld" Is Unfunny: At the time the show began, Danny DeVito's height wasn't well-known, so the pilot was able to make a surprise joke with it when he climbs out of the cage and appears next to the other actors he'd just been ordering around.

Strawman Has a Point: In "Call Of The Mild", Elaine thinks that going to a week's retreat from civilization would be too much for a group of New York cabbies. And being trapped in a cabin in the middle of a mountain for a week without either food or electricity just before an snowstorm isn't a nice experience.

Awesome Music: Plenty of it in the Hip-Hop soundtrack. Most famously, songs of the band IAM and Patrick Abrial's reprise of "Misirlou". There's a divide in France between those who recognize the song from Dick Dale's version in Pulp Fiction and those who think of the opening of Taxi.

Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans of the previous films consider Taxi 5 as an heresy, to say the least. Mainly because the humor is anywhere between gross and pathetic, and because producer Luc Besson refused to have Samy Naceri in it.

Sequelitis: Granted the first film wasn't a particular darling with critics, but it just got worse with the sequels (the latest one, 2018's Taxi 5, being no exception and perhaps the nadir). Fans meanwhile generally agree that the First Installment Wins.

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